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...Toronto Star, filing color stories on the Greco-Turkish war and the Genoa Economic Conference, along with vignettes of trout fishing in Germany and the "king business" in Europe. Some of that early stuff was basic Hemingway: clear as glass. He attended a prestigious press conference given by Benito Mussolini. Il Duce "sat at his desk reading a book. His face was contorted into the famous frown. He was registering Dictator . . . and he remained absorbed in his book ... I tiptoed over be hind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest...
Genoa's main asset is its naturally endowed harbor-and the Genoese even let that fall into disrepair. In the 1930s, the city qualified as Southern Europe's leading port only because Benito Mussolini deliberately diverted shipping from Naples and Venice to keep Genoa's tonnage ahead of archrival Marseille. Once Mussolini was dis patched, Genoa's troubles emerged for all to see. Hemmed in by the Apennines with little room to expand, its harbor area is a cramped compound of 1,000-year-old streets and hopelessly antiquated facilities. Operations are further hampered by some...
...Mafia's monopoly of menace might have grown greater forever, but along came a bulkier bully: Benito Mussolini. On his orders, suspected Mafiosi were drenched with brine and whipped, their hair and nails were torn out, their soles were burned. By World War II, the Mafia was practically moribund...
...best part of the production is Act III, Bluesette. Sondra Forsyth is wonderfully touching in the title role, as a girl who loses her nice guy lover Bernard, gets seduced by Benito the tough guy, but returns to Bernard when Benito is shot by Babe, his old girl friend. The story line isn't so hot, but the dancing is terrific. Even the chorus--which is usually the weak spot in JDW shows--looked good, especially in dramatic scenes like the entrapment of Bluesette. Ron Porter was his usual tough self, as Benito. Eric Lessinger, as Bernard, was a little...
...when the broken body of Benito Mussolini was finally returned to his widow, Donna Rachele, the brain was missing. Though most of it was given to her a year later by an Italian laboratory, a small piece, about a square centimeter in size, had been taken to Washington for medical study. Last week Donna Rachele told how those last remains were returned. A messenger from the U.S. State Department turned up one day recently with what he said was "something very important." Then he gave her five tiny vials, each containing a bit of tissue, plus a bigger piece...